They are still on the expensive side at the moment.
If you don’t mind a bit of DIY, and I’m sure you don’t, you can get a decent discount for one with no o/s and load Windows yourself. You can get W10 Pro for about a tenner and the OEM’s website will fill in any gaps that W10 misses. TBH it does a very good job with drivers, it’s more the utilities.
Ones that stick out on E-Buyer for me: Medion Akoya E15301 Ryzen 5 8GB 256GB SSD 15.6″ Win10 Home £480 Medion always did decent kit and are now part of Lenovo. With a 512GB £500 With 512GB & Ryzen 7 £580
Asus A509JA Core i3 8GB 256GB SSD 15.6″ No OS Laptop £500 It’s the IPS screen on this one.
There are lots of Lenovo V14 / V15 in the price range if you want a more mainstream name. The i3-1005G1 and Ryzen 5-3500U have very similar performance but the Ryzen 3 is more than capable of general office duties. It’s the NVMe drives that make the biggest difference.
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